Funny – I saw one of these in Newtown where Australia Street meets King Street on the weekend. An inverted pink triangle about remembering someone who was raped…Juts near the “Guerrilla Gardiner’s” little gazebo there (I wondering if it was something to do with them and then on reading it… figured not

If a gay man was bashed, or worse murdered, at a ‘beat’ the police often took the view that the poofs got what was coming to them and never really expended too much energy hunting down the perps.

Lawyers for the rarely caught accused would use the ‘Gay Advance’ defence, also known as the ‘Gay Panic’ defence and would have horrendous murder charges reduced to manslaughter with minimal sentences because it was considered that any ‘normal aussie’ bloke would be rightly horrified by the actions of a pervert, even if the pervert was just looking at them in a strange way. John Milicevic, named on one of the plaques, was murdered when he was stabbed in the face for allegedly staring at the offender and ‘licking his lips like a faggot’. John was murdered by three men; this was no random act, this was a premeditated act of brutality.

Seems so far from the middle class, cafe and boot camp culture of Ruschutters Bay now. But then you realise most of these plaques are for things that only happened in the early ’90s – it’s not that long ago.

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